Dave pretty well spelled it out. I got into the madness early on and realized I could never collect them all. I went after the ones I wanted and ended up with 211. My favorite part of York from about 2004 on was an hour or so with Jim Weaver talking about reefers. He had a long drive to make a Grain Belt which didn't happen, but we talked about it every six months. The 2 things that cooled me were that in 2010 one of my Natty Bo's was stolen off a display at the Virginia Beach convention center, probably by an acquaintance and the loss of Jim in 2011. I bought 8 sets of the Ballantine Reefers on the advice of my investment counselor "Ben", but that didn't work out as well as several cases of Gluek. Andy Petersen is still chasing an Olympia Beer reefer and I'm hopeful that will be the exclamation point on my collection. I had wanted the reefers to be the center piece of my dream layout, but cancer has way laid that. I am cancer free, thank God, but it took away 3 years. I have a great club layout, but I don't want to take the reefers to the club layout and about 75% are yet to be unboxed.
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